Andrzej Leder (born 1960) is a Polish philosopher of culture, practicing psychotherapist, and internationally recognized expert on Polish cultural history.
Biography
Andrzej Leder, the son of Witold Leder and Ewa LipiÃ
Âska, graduated from the Medical University of Warsaw, and in philosophy from the University of Warsaw. He then obtained his doctorate from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, supervised by Professor . He has worked at the latter institute since 1996, including from 2010 as an associate professor.
Leder engages regularly in public debates on culture and memory in Poland. He has contributed to the periodical from 1992 to 2012, and more recently to the weekly magazine .
In 2015, his book The Sleepwalkersâ Revolution was nominated for the Polish Nike Award, and also for the .
Selected works
- Przemiana mitów, czyli Ã
¼ycie w epoce schyÃ
Âku. Zbiór esejów (Warsaw: OPEN Publishing, 1997), translated as The Changing Guise of Myths: Philosophical Essays (Peter Lang GmbH, 2013)
- NieÃ
ÂwiadomoÃ
ÂÃÂ jako pustka ("The Unconscious as Emptiness"; Warsaw: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2001)
- Nauka Freuda w epoce Sein und Zeit ("The Teachings of Freud during the Sein und Zeit Period"; Warsaw: Aletheia Publishing, 2007)
- PrzeÃ
Âniona rewolucja. ÃÂwiczenia z logiki historycznej ("The Sleepwalkersâ Revolution: Exercises in Historical Logic"; Warsaw: Krytyka Polityczna, 2014)
- Rysa na tafli ("Scratch on the Glass"; Warsaw: Polish Scientific Publishers PWN, 2016)
- ByÃ
 kiedyÃ
 postmodernizm... SzeÃ
Âàesejów o schyÃ
Âku XX stulecia ("Once Upon A Time, Postmodernism... Six Essays on the Late 20th Century"; Warsaw: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2018)
See also
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